"Last year, my 5-year-old twins came to me, and Betty said, ‘Mommy, next year I want to buzz [my hair] for my friends at camp.’ I said, ‘Okay we can definitely talk about this.’ This year, they found out one of their friends at school had been through [leukemia] treatment, so they were very committed to doing this. They buzzed my hair, and right after, I buzzed theirs. When they walked back into their classroom that Monday morning, they had that moment of nerves. ‘What if people laugh at us? What's going to happen?’ I said, ‘I'll go with you, and if people laugh at you, then we can talk about why we did this. Mommy's bald too now, so you'll have that.’ They walked in, and nobody batted an eyelash. They sat down, they did their work. They said that one person had said that they looked like boys, and Betty said, ‘Well, boys aren't bad and my hair cut doesn't make me a girl or a boy.’ They have a lot of confidence and they've got each other, and that helps them to not be pulled in as much by the social pressure. We chose to do this because a lot of people we know don't get to choose; it's just something that happens to them. That's a really proud moment as a parent. It's hard for a 6-year-old, sometimes, to think of something that's bigger than themselves unless they've lived it. They were able to really have that sense of a bigger purpose and service."